Coiffure hood



Dec. 10, 1963 A. E. SIEGEL COIFFURE HOOD Filed May 7, 1962 INVENTOR. ALLA/v E. SIEGEL ATTORNEY United States Patent 3,113,321 CGIFFURE H9411) Allan E. Siegel, 4898 S. Sherman St, Engiewood, Colo. Filed May 7, 1962, Ser. No. 332,706 3 Claims. (Cl. 2 174 This invention relates to facilities employable in connection with and to protect the results of hairdressing operations, and more particularly to a hood-type accessory adapted to fully envelope and loosely embrace the scalp and hairdo of a wearer in secure detachable coaction with the head thereabout, and has as an object to provide a novel and improved such accessory distinguished by Wide utility, high practicality, and unique operative capability.

A further object of the invention is to provide a novel and improved coiifure hood that is advantageously applicable to supplement and to advance various phases of diverse hairdressing operations.

A further object of the invention is to provide a novel and improved coitfure hood that is reliably eifective in enveloping relation with a hairdo at any appropriate stage of processing and subsequent to completion to inhibit direct contact of the hair with materials subject to staining or soilage.

A further object of the invention is to provide a novel and improved coifiure hood that is effectively capable in use to protect and conserve the hair at any stabe of its dressing against displacement and disarrangement in reaction to customary activities of the wearer.

A further object of the invention is to provide a novel and improved coiifure hood distinguished by an inherent resistance to confining compaction of the arrangements thereby enveloped.

A further object of the invention is to provide a novel and improved coitfure hood characterized by provision for adequate and sustained ventilation of its interior and enveloped complements when positioned for use.

A further object of the invention is to provide a novel and improved construction and operative combination of elements, components, and features constituting a coifiure hood.

A further object of the invention is to provide a novel and improved coiifure hood that is simple and economical of production, that is adjustably conformable in a given embodiment to intended coaction with an extensive range of head sizes, that accommodates with intended purpose hairdressings of diverse bulk and particularity, that is amenable to effective and repetitious cleansing, that is durably applicable to repeated use, and that is positive and efficient in attainment of the ends for which designed.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, my invention consists in the construction and operative combination of elements as hereinafter set forth, pointed out in the appended claims, and illustrated by the accompanying drawings, in which FIGURE 1 is a plan view of a typical blank of initiallyflat material primary to and as organized for the production of the improved coiffure hood according to the principles of the invention.

FIGURE 2 is a perspective view, on a relatively-enlarged scale, showing the open under area of a hood unit comprised from the blank of FIGURE 1 as prepared ready for use.

FIGURE 3 is a perspective view showing the closed upper area of the hood unit represented by FIGURE 2.

FIGURE 4 is a fragmentary, detail section, on a furtherenlarged scale, taken substantially on the indicated line 4-4 of FIGURE 2.

In connection with the many techniques utilized for the dressing of human hair there arise occasions of diverse origin and nature for enveloping the hair, during or subsequent to treatment, in a manner to loosely hood and 3,113,321 Patented Dec. 10, 1963 ice protect the same subject to access of air and free from compacting influences for time intervals of varying extent. Final stages of hair dressing operations distin guished by prolonged reaction to coercive influences of applied restraints and the persistence of the ultimate hairdo alike are promoted by wear of an enveloping hood capable of functioning as a ventilated protective cover with minimal compressive effect upon the hairdo and with dependable moderation of the soiling, staining, and smudging potential of the dressed hair. The practical importance of and the requirements for a satisfactory coiffure hood being established as set forth, the instant invention is directed to the provision of a novel and improved such hood capable in a unique organization of efiiciently meeting and effectively resolving the conditions of use whereto it is applicable.

Significantly primary to effectuate the purposes and to realize the advantages of the invention are the character and physical properties of the material utilized through ingenious adaptation for the enveloping body portion of the improvement. Essential attributes of a suitable such material are availability at low cost in normally-flat, smoothsurfaced sheet form, homogeneous softly-compressible texture, conformable flexibility, inherent resilience, and inert reaction to cleansing agents, cosmetic applications, moderate heat, and the like, all of which desiderata obtain in the commercially-available products known as plastic foams, sponge rubber, and foam rubber, which are obtainable in flat sheets of different thicknesses.

Fabrication of the improved coifliure hood begins with the separation from a fiat sheet of suitable foam material having substantial thickness, on the order of one-half an inch, of an oval area designated generally by the numeral 10 outlined to a major axis of a length to arch between the brow and base of the skull of an average human head in the mesial plane of the latter out of contact with and in a substantial spacing from the skull crown so spanned and to a minor axis of a length adapted to similarly arch loosely between the hair lines at the sides of the head and lat erally over the skull crown in a spacing outwardly therefrom. In the general proportions stated, the oval area 10 is conditioned to serve as the enveloping body portion of a hood by means and in consequence of incisions symmetrically dividing each lateral half of the area into a plurality of fingers 11 opposed as duplicate arrays outstnding from inner end attachment to an uninterrupted band 12 of the area material containing and symmetrical with respect to the major axis of the area which desirably terminates in laterally-expanded lobes 13, substantially as shown in FIGURE 1. Sized and proportioned in any expedient number to establish at and through lateral contact of their free ends an annulus approximating the hair outline girth of a typically small human head, the fingers 11 are appropriately shaped in plan and separated by cuts which close to the borders of the band 12 therebetween and about the lobes 13 in any preferred pattern and particularity effective to proportion the free ends of the fingers and lobes for the conjunctive association and reaction specified.

Organized as shown and described, the blank comprised from the area It) tends by virtue of the nature and properties of the material from which it is formed to remain generally flat in a coplanar relation of the fingers ll, band 12, and lobes 13 which individually and inherently resist displacement from their common plane, so that, when the free ends of the fingers Ill and lobes 13 are drawn into lateral contact as elements of and to complete an annulus, they establish a plane for said annulus offset from the areal plane of the blank and apply the properties of the blank material to effect a pouching of the blank in a distention resulting from and sustained by the resilience of the elements displaced from their normal disposition. With the free ends of the fingers 11 and lobes 13 bunched in lateral contact to define the annulus as above described, the initially-separate said ends are consolidated as determinants of the annulus and the latter is maintained by means of an elastic band 14 stitched under slight longitudinal tension, as at 15, to and across inner faces of the fingers 11 and lobes 13 inwardly and closely adjacent the contacting free ends thereof, whereby said band 14 is applied to permanently conjoin the outer ends of the contacting fingers and lobes with slight constrictive and resiliently expansible effect circumferentially of the annulus thereby defined as a head-embracing access opening to the pouched interior of the distended blank.

Supplementing the constrictive influence of the band 14 with adjustable limitation of its expansive capability for consequent security of hood attachment in position of use, a fabric fold 16 operatively housing a drawstring 17 in a customary manner is applied to and exteriorly about the conjoined ends of the fingers 11 and lobes 13 and thereto permanently attached in a longitudinallyslack relation accommodating some extension attendant upon expansion of the annulus which it surrounds by means of stitching 18 desirably engaging through the fingers and lobes and with the band 14 interiorly thereof. As is usual, opposite free ends of the drawstring 17 extend through a common opening in the fold 16 conveniently located in registration with one of the lobes 13 and are hence available to apply tension through the fold peripherally of the annulus to constrict the latter snugly about a head to which the hood is applied; such tension being maintained in desired degree through the ordinary tying together of the drawstring ends.

Practical use and effective functioning of the improvement organized as shown and described should be reasonably apparent from the foregoing. Constituted and arranged as represented by FIGURES 2 and 3 with the drawstring ends untied and free, the hood is ready for use. Sized and proportioned as previously set forth, the access opening constricted to minimum size by the band 14 may be expanded as may be needful to engaged the annulus over the head of the wearer and to embracing relation thereabout in approximate registration with the hair outline of the skull, about which the flexible material determining the annulus conformably adapts in snug coaction under the constrictive influence of the band 14 to dispose the pouched body of the hood in loose enveloping relation with the skull hair away from which the material of the pouch is urged by the inherent resilience tending to return the finger, band, and lobe com ponents to their original coplanar association. Preferably applied with the band 12 spanning between the brow and nape of the neck to oppose the resistance to deformation inherent in said band to compressive influences acting longitudinally thereof, the incisions closing to said barid accommodate circulation of air laterally of the enveloped arrangements and to and from the interior of the mounted hood as the inherent resilience of the fingers and lobes tends to maintain the body of the hood distended away from compacting contact with the enveloped hair'in moderate resistance to influences acting to contract the body. Mounted in and adjusted to desired position of use on the head of a wearer, the hood is secured against in advertent shift and displacement through appropriate tensioning and tying of the drawstring 17 effective to inhibit epansion of the annulus from its constrictive coaction with the head. Amenable to cleansing and suited for repetitious use, the improved hood comfortably envelops the hair with full protection against soilage, staining, or smudging of surfaces or materials ipon which the head may rest and with enhanced protection of the hair arrangements against compaction and displacement incident to the normal activities of the wearer.

Since changes, variations, and modifications in the form, construction, and arrangement of the elements shown and described may be had without departing from the spirit of my invention, I wish to be understood as being limited solely by the scope of the appended claims, rather than by any details of the illustrative showing and foregoing description.

I claim as my invention:

1. A coiffure hood comprising an initially-flat, generally-oval sheet of substantially-thick, flexible foam material resiliently resistive to flexure inherently biased to planar condition formed with inwardly-convergent incisions defining end-separated fingers and lobes marginally thereof and entirely thereabout, an annular elastic band secured to and constrictively uniting the juxtaposed ends of said fingers and lobes, whereby to conform and retain said sheet as a concave-convex body distended by the inherent bias of the material adapted to loosely envelop the skull of a wearer receivable therein through the extensible access opening determined by said band, and means manipulable to secure the access opening margin common to said band and the'lobe and finger ends thereby united against expansion from adjustment to position of use in embracing relation with the skull of a wearer.

2. The organization according to claim 1, wherein said sheet is symmetrical with respect to a major median axis, said incisions divide each lateral half of the sheet into an array of fingers outstanding from inner end attachment to an uninterrupted band of the sheet material containing and symmetrical with respect to the major axis thereof, and said band of the sheet material terminates at the sheet margins in lobes detached from and between contiguous fingers of said arrays.

3. The organization according to claim 1, wherein the means manipulable to secure the opening margin common to said band and the lobe and finger ends thereby united against expansion is a fabric fold attached exteriorly to and about said opening margin complementary to said band for extension and contraction with the margin and band, and a drawstring operatively housed in said fold.

References Cited in the tile of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,028,826 Miller June 4, 1912 1,234,735 Davidson July 31, 1917 1,246,948 Sears Nov. 20, 1917 1,300,644 Phillips Apr. 15, 1919 1,350,712 Dupont Aug. 24, 1920 1,512,866 Strauss Oct. 21, 1924 1,609,215 Solash Nov. 30, 1926 1,704,576 Pellegrino Mar. 5, 1929 2,889,557 Blair June 9, 1959 3,014,221 Brunetto Dec. 26, 1961 3,019,444 Pollack et al Feb. 6, 1962 FOREIGN PATENTS 515,018 Belgium Nov. 14, 1952 722,276 Germany July 6, 1942 

1. A COIFFURE HOOD COMPRISING AN INITIALLY-FLAT, GENERALLY-OVAL SHEET OF SUBSTANTIALLY-THICK, FLEXIBLE FOAM MATERIAL RESILIENTLY RESISTIVE TO FLEXURE INHERENTLY BIASED TO PLANAR CONDITION FORMED WITH INWARDLY-CONVERGENT INCISIONS DEFINING END-SEPARATED FINGERS AND LOBES MARGINALLY THEREOF AND ENTIRELY THEREABOUT, AN ANNULAR ELASTIC BAND SECURED TO AND CONSTRICTIVELY UNITING THE JUXTAPOSED ENDS OF SAID FINGERS AND LOBES, WHEREBY TO CONFORM AND RETAIN SAID SHEET AS A CONCAVO-CONVEX BODY DISTENDED BY THE INHERENT BIAS OF THE MATERIAL ADAPTED TO LOOSELY ENVELOP THE SKULL OF A WEARER RECEIVABLE THEREIN THROUGH THE EXTENSIBLE ACCESS OPENING DETERMINED BY SAID BAND, AND MEANS MANIPULABLE TO SECURE THE ACCESS OPENING MARGIN COMMON TO SAID BAND AND THE LOBE AND FINGER ENDS THEREBY UNITED AGAINST EXPANSION FROM ADJUSTMENT TO POSITION OF USE IN EMBRACING RELATION WITH THE SKULL OF A WEARER. 